Today was a big day for all us giving the fact that it was our last day in Ireland. We decided to spent our last day in another wonderful place:  The national Gallery of Ireland, which was recently renovated . One of the things that completely blew my mind away is the architecture of this place. It was so elegant that it seem surreal. This touch of sophistication gave the artistic pieces even more life. I was absolutely beautiful how well they blended, and how the architecture added so much more context into these pieces. As I was walking through the gallery I couldnt help to realized that the pieces seemed to repeat consecutive themes: Place & Religion. I do not know whether the selection was intentional or not, but this are in fact the themes that have shaped Irish History, and literature.

One of my favorite pieces was ” The infant Saint John Playing with a Lamb” by Bartolome Murillo, which is the picture located below. I found it to be very heartwarming. This piece is a representation of the purity and innocents of Saint John. The lamb of course is a representation of Christ. There were many other painting similar to this picture, where children were the muse of inspiration that the most famous artist used to deliver  a message.

We ended our visit to the Gallery by attending to the Vermeer Exhibition. I was fascinated by all the messages hidden between these paintings. I  learned that art is inter-connectable, and that sometimes artist responded to pieces designed by others, or contributed to their improvement, even when back in that period of time it wasn’t as easy to communicate or move across the globe.